FBI Allowed by US Court to Keep iPhone Hacking Tool a Secret

A US court has allowed the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to keep secret the information regarding the tool
that was used to hack iPhone 5c used by terrorist Syed Farook who killed 14
people in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.

According to technology website
ZDNet, some leading media houses filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit to
reveal the name of the hacking tool's vendor and its price.

The court, in its final ruling on
Sunday, said the FBI would not be forced to reveal details of a hacking tool
used to break into a terrorist's iPhone.

In her ruling, federal judge Tanya
Chutkan said naming the vendor and its cost would amount to putting a target on
its back, and could lead to the loss of theft of the hacking tool.

"It is logical and plausible
that the vendor may be less capable than the FBI of protecting its proprietary
information in the face of a cyber-attack," said the court.

The FBI noted that the vendor's
networks are "not as sophisticated" as its own, which could invite
cyber-attacks against the company, the report said.

"The FBI's conclusion that
releasing the name of the vendor to the general public could put the vendor's
systems, and thereby crucial information about the technology, at risk of
incursion is a reasonable one."

The media outlets argued that
revealing the price fair game as details had already been publicly made,
including one by former FBI Director James Comey and Senator Dianne Feinstein,
who both put the price of the tool at around the $1 million-mark, the report
noted.

Disagreeing with the argument, the
court said: "Releasing the purchase price would designate a finite value
for the technology and help adversaries determine whether the FBI can broadly
utilise the technology to access their encrypted devices."

Last year, the Justice Department
had launched legal action against Apple after it refused to help FBI unlock the
phone saying that it would not break its customer's trust and argued that the
device's encryption could not be defeated - even by the company.

The FBI later obtained a hacking
tool that allowed the agency to access the contents of the terrorist's iPhone.

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